:usaflag:Lost Rings!!:detecting:

[Cupajo]

Yesterday I told an old timer I know that I search for lost jewekry in the water with an underwater metal detector.

He told me about losing his university ring in 1944 at a nearby beach and from his description I think there is a better than average chance that it is still there!!

I will give it a try tomorrow AM if all goes well!

Recovery of a ring lost 66 years would be a hoot and certainly worth a news article!

My door-bell rang early this PM and a young man at the door asked if I was the guy who had helped people to find lost rings.

I found out that yesterday he had lost his wedding band in the water in front of the cottage he was renting and had a fair recollection of its location.

Shortly, when the tide is right, I will head to the site and give 'er a go!

It's only a 1/4 mile from where I sit.

I'll keep Ya All posted!

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

I entered the water at 7PM with my Dual Field complete with new Lithium batteries and walked out against the small swells the 65 or so feet to where Mark was standing.

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He said as nearly as he could remember he was "just about here' when he felt the wedding band fall off his finger.

The first signal was strong, but small in size and I explained to him that it could be a fishing sinker or anything metal for that matter.

It turned out to be a small sinker!

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I asked him to step aside a few feet and right where he was standing there was a very strong signal from another small object which I suggested just might be his ring and then and there I dug up his ring!


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The digging was hard because of the stones, but #36 ended up in my sifter and made the whole family (Standing on the beach watching) very happy!!!

10 or 15 minutes of water time including the digging. (It would have gone faster if I wasn't dodging waves!)

CJ

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

rings that people have lost. It appears that you are becoming well known around there. You did good. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks Fred,

It does my old heart good to help these folks and I haven't charged a red cent to recover and return 36 gold rings now.

I really enjoy the hobby and interacting with good people.

I did however, accept a bottle of wine from the young fellows wife!

Have a Great Day Friend,

CJ

 

[Bayrat76]

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[Cupajo]

I just got in from cruising the swimming area where the friend lost his university ring in 1944.

The last time I hunted there was in the 80s and I was walking on stones and small boulders in waist deep water.

This AM the sand was so deep where he said to look that I couldn't even find the bottom!

I'll monitor the spot for future hunts and I hope I can find the old gents ring for him or his family should it work out that way.

After 21/2 hours of water hunting I brought home 2-quarters, 2-dimes, 2-nickles, and 4-pennies.

A couple of bottle caps, one fishing lure and a dozen fishing sinkers nearly all an ounce and smaller and a few odd bits of rusty iron along with a half dozen hair pins.!

GL&HH friends,

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

For the second day in a row I had someone come to my house and ask me to help them find a lost ring!

About a half hour ago I went back to the beach a few cottages down frrom the one where I found the ring yesterday to find a ring that had been the prized possession of an elderly lady that had died several weeks ago.

It was given to the future bride of her grandson and lost on the sandy beach shortly thereafter.

I fired up my Ace 250 and in 15 minutes or so recovered a quarter, two nickles and a zinc pennie, but no ring.

When I turned to hunt a parallel path with the sun at my back I saw a sparkle that can only come from a diamond and didn't even give the Ace a chance to do its thing!!
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I pointed it out to the father of the bride to be and the rest is history as they say.

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Granpa offered me a sizeable tip for my time and I asked if I could be paid with these photos instead!

What a day!!!

CJ

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

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[Wayne in BC]

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[Cupajo]

Got no black bear or cougars to shoot so I find my excitement where I can!

Wonder what tomorrow will bring?

CJ

 

[George-CT]

lousing stuff. Ocean beach is the same way, show up and it seems like someone has a lost something, rings, car keys, cell phone
ear rings and one time a glass eye...

You done your good deeds for this week for sure.....

Geo

 

[Micheal_R]

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[Cupajo]

This AM I had my usual cupa as I checked out the possibility of a hunt.

By 8AM it was so hot that I was drenched in perspiration.

When I considered how badly the bottom is sanded up out there and the heat, I decided to wait for a day with more to offer in the way of possibilities.

Hope you-all are staying cool,

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

This AM I checked my E-Mail and found that a Friend of mine who had witnessed Fridays wedding ring recovery had sent me a note of approval!

My first!!

I thought y'all might like to see what an impact your recovering and returning a ring might have!

Hello CJ,

Congratulations, again, on your finding the lost wedding ring on Friday! It was wonderful for me to be there to see the joy, relief and wonder that you brought not only to the couple who had lost the ring but to all those around who had observed the drama around the couple's loss and the searching for the ring for the past days. I think that your finding the ring in the short time you did, after many folks searching with masks and snorkels and toes, was more wondrous and wonderful to the observing crowd than had you been curing lepers with a single word or touch. What a great gift you have given so many folks with your many ring finds! I was reminded of the ending of so many old Lone Ranger TV series in which folks asked "Who was that masked man" as the hero rode out of town as people talked of the experience of watching you find the ring.

My daughter, who had rented a cottage for the week a couple doors, up wants to know how it went for the search you mentioned you would be doing on Saturday for the lost ring from 1944? I know so many were interested and wishing you well.

It is a great gift you have given so many. You are a generous man of many talents!

All the best,

David